Dr. Harry Quigley to Receive Prestigious Service Award

Harry Quigley, M.D., the A. Edward Maumenee Professor of Ophthalmology, who established the Glaucoma Division at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, has been selected to receive ARVO's highest service honor, the Joanne G. Angle Service Award.

According to ARVO's website, this award recognizes outstanding leaders who have made significant, continuous contributions to ARVO in support of its mission, and shows obvious personal involvement in and commitment to ARVO as well as contributions to the vision research community.

Dr. Quigley has been a pioneer in the diagnosis, treatment and management of glaucoma throughout the years, improving the early diagnosis of glaucoma and developing instruments and techniques to identify glaucoma damage better.

participated in pioneering studies of the epidemiology, morbidity and progression rate of glaucoma and other eye disease in American, African, Asian, and Hispanic populations, serving as a consultant to the World Health Organization,

conceptualized new roles for iris and choroidal volume change as risk factors in angle closure glaucoma,

Dr. Quigley will receive this prestigious award at the ARVO Annual Meeting this May in Honolulu, Hawaii. ARVO will also feature Dr. Quigley as the award recipient in its Spring 2017 issue of ARVO News.